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(Optional) Hands-on Lab: Create IBM Cloud account and Watson Studio instance

Estimated time needed: 40 minutes

In this lab you will explore Watson Studio

Objectives -
After completing this lab, you will be able to:

  • Use Watson Studio service
  • Create project in Watson Studio
  • Add an interactive python notebook to a project in Watson Studio

Pre-requisite

You need an IBM Cloud account to create a project in Watson Studio. If you don’t have an account created already, click and open this link and follow the instructions, to create an IBM Cloud account.

Exercise - Create a project on Watson Studio

If you have not created a Watson service before proceed with Task 1, otherwise go to Task 2

Task 1: For New Users (with no Watson service):

  1. Click here to go to the IBM Cloud Watson Studio page. To create a Watson service, choose a plan you want to use, click Create. In the image below, the Lite plan has been chosen.
  1. On the Watson Studio page, click on Launch in IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Task 2: For Existing Users (who already have Watson Service):

  1. Go to the IBM Cloud Dashboard and click Services.
  1. When you click on Services, all your existing services will be shown in the list. Click the Watson Studio service you created:
  1. On the Watson Studio page, click on Launch in IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Task 3: Creating a Project

  1. Click on Create a project
  1. On the Create a project page, click Create an empty project
  1. Provide a Project Name and Description, as shown below:
  1. You must also create storage for the project. Click Add
  1. On the Cloud Object Storage page, scroll down and then click Create.
  1. In the Confirm Creation box, click Confirm.
  1. On the New project page, note that the storage has been added, and then click Create.

Task4: Adding a Notebook to the Project:

  1. You need to add a Notebook to your project. Click on Assets > New asset.
  1. Scroll down and select Jupyter Notebook Editor:

  1. On the New Notebook page, enter a name for the notebook, and then click From URL.
    Copy this link.

  2. Paste it into the Notebook URL box, and then click Create Notebook.

You will see this Notebook:

Author(s)

Joseph Santarcangelo

Other Contributor(s)

Lavanya

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